Midian

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}}Template:Main other Midian (Template:IPAc-en; Template:Langx; Template:Langx, Madiam;Template:Efn Taymanitic: 𐪃𐪕𐪚𐪌 MDYN; Template:Langx Mīḏyān) is a geographical region in West Asia, located in northwestern Saudi Arabia. mentioned in the Tanakh and Quran. William G. Dever states that biblical Midian was in the "northwest Arabian Peninsula, on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba on the Red Sea",<ref>Template:Citation</ref> an area which contained at least 14 inhabited sites during the Late Bronze and early Iron Ages.Template:Sfn<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

According to the Book of Genesis, the Midianites were the descendants of Midian, a son of Abraham and his wife Keturah: "Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah" (Genesis 25:1–2, King James Version).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Traditionally, knowledge about Midian and the Midianites' existence was based solely upon Biblical and classical sources,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> but in 2010 a reference to Midian was identified in a Taymanitic inscription dated to before the 9th century BC.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

Land or tribal league?

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The historical castle of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia

Some scholars have suggested that the name "Midian" does not refer to geographic places or to a specific tribe,<ref>William J. Dumbrell, Midian: A Land or a League?, Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 25, Fasc. 2, No. 2a. Jubilee Number (May, 1975), pp. 323–37</ref><ref>Bromiley Geoffrey W. The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. Wm. B. Eerdmans, 1996. Template:ISBN. p. 350.</ref> but to a confederation or "league" of tribes brought together as a collective for worship purposes. Paul Haupt first made this suggestion in 1909,<ref>Template:Cite journal quoted in Dumbrell</ref> describing Midian as a "cultic collective" (Template:Langx) or an amphictyony, meaning "an association (Template:Langx) of different tribes in the vicinity of a sanctuary". Elath, on the northern tip of the Gulf of Aqaba was suggestedTemplate:By whom as the location of the first shrine, with a second sanctuary located at Kadesh.Template:Citation needed

Later writers have questioned the identified sanctuary locations but supported the thesis of a Midianite league. George Mendenhall suggests that the Midianites were a non-Semitic confederate group,<ref>"The Incident at Beth Baal Peor", The Tenth Generation: The Origins of the Biblical Tradition, 1973</ref> and William Dumbrell maintains the same:

We believe that Haupt's proposal is to be adopted, and that Midian, rather than depicting a land, is a general term for an amorphous league of the Late Bronze Age, of wide geographical range, who, after a series of reverses, the most prominent of which are recorded in Template:Bibleverse, largely disappeared from the historical scene...<ref>William J. Dumbrell, Midian: A Land or a League?, Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 25, Fasc. 2, No. 2a. Jubilee Number (May, 1975), p. 32.</ref>{{#if:|{{#if:|}}

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Otherwise, the land of Midian roughly corresponds to what is now the region of Tabuk in Saudi Arabia.<ref name="Edwards2013">Template:Cite book</ref>

Metallurgy

The area of Timna valley contains large deposits of copper that had been mined from the prehistoric times onward. Copper was mined here by the Egyptians during the reign of Pharaoh Seti I at the end of the 14th century BCE.<ref>Jacob Edward Dunn 2015, ‘A Land Whose Stones Are Iron And From Whose Hills You May Mine Copper’: Metallurgy, Pottery, And The Midianite-Qenite Hypothesis. Thesis, University of Georgia. 129 pages</ref>

Religion

It is uncertain which deities the Midianites worshipped. Given their apparent religio-political connection with the Moabites<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> they are thought to have worshipped a multitude, including Baal-peor and Ashteroth. According to Karel van der Toorn, "[b]y the 14th century BC, groups of Edomites and Midianites worshipped Yahweh as their God"; this conclusion relies on identifying the Midianites with the Shasu.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

Scholars have noted the Midianite connections to metallurgy at Timna. Large amounts of Midianite ceramic ware has been discovered at these mining sites.<ref>Rothenberg, Beno. The Egyptian Mining Temple at Timna. Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies London: Thames and Hudson, 1988</ref>

An Egyptian temple of Hathor at Timna (Site 200) was first discovered during Beno Rothenberg's excavations.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>

"Rothenberg’s excavation of Site 200 revealed a number of Egyptian hieroglyphic inscriptions including those of: Seti I, Ramesses II, Merneptah, Seti II, and Queen Twosret of the Nineteenth Dynasty, as well as Ramesses III, Ramesses IV, and Ramesses V of the Twentieth Dynasty (pp. 163–166)."<ref>Jacob Edward Dunn 2015, 'A Land Whose Stones Are Iron And From Whose Hills You May Mine Copper': Metallurgy, Pottery, And The Midianite-Qenite Hypothesis. Thesis, University of Georgia. 129 pages. Note 200, page 54</ref>

The site also continued in use during the Midianite occupation in the area, which is usually dated to terminal Late Bronze Age-Early Iron Age.

The Midianites transformed the Hathor mining temple into a desert tent-shrine.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> In addition to the discovery of post-holes, large quantities of red and yellow decayed cloth with beads woven into it, along with numerous copper rings/wire used to suspend the curtains, were found all along two walls of the shrine.

Beno Rothenberg,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> the excavator of the site, suggested that the Midianites were making offerings to Hathor, especially since a large number of Midianite votive vessels (25%) were discovered in the shrine. However, whether Hathor or some other deity was the object of devotion during this period is difficult to ascertain.

A small bronze snake with a gilded head was also discovered in the naos of the Timna mining shrine, along with a hoard of metal objects that included a small bronze figurine of a bearded male god, which according to Rothenberg was Midianite in origin. Michael Homan observes that the Midianite tent-shrine at Timna provides one of the closest parallels to the biblical Tabernacle.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

In scriptures

In the Bible

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Five kings of Midian slain by Israel (illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible)

Midian was the son of Abraham.<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> Abraham's great-grandson Joseph, after being thrown into a pit by his brothers, was sold to either Midianites or Ishmaelites.<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref>

Moses spent 40 years in self-imposed exile in Midian after killing an Egyptian.<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> There, he married Zipporah, the daughter of Midianite priest Jethro<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> (also known as Reuel). Jethro advised Moses on establishing a system of delegated legal decision-making.<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> Moses asked Hobab, the son of Reuel, to accompany the Israelites travelling towards the Promised Land because of his local knowledge, but Hobab preferred to return to his homeland.<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> A number of scholars have proposed that the biblical description of devouring fire on Mount Sinai refers to an erupting volcano in the land of biblical Midian identified as Hala-'l Badr in northwestern Saudi Arabia.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

During the Baal-Peor episode, when Moabite women seduced Israelite men, Zimri, the son of a Simeonite chief, got involved with a Midianite woman called Cozbi. The couple were speared by Phinehas.<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> War against Midian followed. Numbers 31 reports that all but the virgin females were slain and their cities burned to the ground.<ref>Template:Bibleverse and Template:Bibleverse</ref> Some commentators, for example the Pulpit Commentary and Gill's Exposition of the Bible, note that God's command focused on attacking the Midianites and not the Moabites,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and similarly Moses in Deuteronomy directed that the Israelites should not harass the Moabites.<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> A modern-day movement, the Phineas Priesthood, has interpreted this story as a prohibition against miscegenation, despite the Midianites being closely related to the Israelites as descendants of Abraham, and Moses being married to a Midianite.

During the time of the Judges, Israel was oppressed by Midian for seven years<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> until Gideon defeated Midian's armies.<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> Isaiah speaks of camels from Midian and Ephah coming to "cover your land", along with the gold and frankincense from Sheba.<ref>Template:Bibleverse</ref> This passage, taken by the Gospel of Matthew as a foreshadowing of the Magi's gifts to the infant Jesus, has been incorporated into the Christmas liturgy.Template:Citation needed

In the Quran

The people of Midian are mentioned extensively in the Quran. The word 'Madyan' appears 10 times in it. The people are also called {{#invoke:Lang|lang}} (Template:Langx).<ref>Template:Qref</ref><ref>Template:Qref</ref><ref>Template:Qref</ref><ref>Template:Qref</ref> The lands of Midian are mentioned in sura Al-Qasas (The Stories), verses 20–28, of the Quran as the place where Musa (Moses) escaped upon learning of the chiefs conspiring to kill him.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Surah 9 (Al-Tawbah), verse 70 says "Has not the story reached them of those before them? – The people of Nūḥ (Noah), ʿĀd and Thamud, the people of Ibrahim (Abraham), the dwellers [literally, comrades] of Madyan (Midian) and the cities overthrown [i.e. the people to whom Lūṭ (Lot) preached], to them came their Messengers with clear proofs. So it was not Allah who wronged them, but they used to wrong themselves."<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

In Surah 7 (Al-ʾAʿrāf), Madyan is mentioned as one of several peoples who were warned by prophets to repent lest judgment fall on them. The story of Madyan is the last, coming after that of Lot preaching to his people (referring to the destruction of the Cities of the Plain). Madyan was warned by the prophet Shuʿaib to repent of practicing polytheism, using false weights and measures and lying in wait along the road. But they rejected Shuʿaib, and consequently were destroyed by a tremor (rajfa, v. 91). Abdullah Yusuf Ali in his commentary (1934) writes, "The fate of the Madyan people is described in the same terms as that of the Thamūd in verse 78 above. An earthquake seized them by night, and they were buried in their own homes, no longer to vex Allah's earth. But a supplementary detail is mentioned in [Quran] 26:189, 'the punishment of a day of overshadowing gloom,' which may be understood to mean a shower of ashes and cinders accompanying a volcanic eruption. Thus a day of terror drove them into their homes, and the earthquake finished them."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> Excavations at the oasis of Al-Bad', identified as the city of Midian mentioned in classical and Islamic sources, have uncovered evidence of an occupation spanning from the 4th millennium BC.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Pottery

Midianite pottery, also called Qurayyah Painted Ware (QPW), is found at numerous sites stretching from the southern Levant to NW Saudi Arabia, the Hejaz; Qurayyah in NW Saudi Arabia is thought to be its original location of manufacture.<ref>B. Rothenberg and J.Glass, "The Midianite Pottery," in Midian, Moab, and Edom: The History and Archaeology of the Late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and North-West Arabia, JSOT Supplement Series 24, ed. John F.A. Sawyer and David J.A. Clines (Sheffield: JSOT Press, 1983), pp. 65–124.</ref> The pottery is bichrome / polychrome style and it dates as early as the 13th century BC; its many geometric, human, and animal motifs are painted in browns and dark reds on a pinkish-tan slip. "Midianite" pottery is found in its largest quantities at metallurgical sites in the southern Levant, especially Timna.<ref>Tebes, "Pottery Makers and Premodern Exchange in the Fringes of Egypt: An Approximation to the Distribution of Iron Age Midianite Pottery," Buried History 43 (2007), pp. 11–26.</ref> Because of the Mycenaean motifs on Midianite pottery, some scholars including George Mendenhall,<ref>George Mendenhall, "Qurayya and the Midianites," in Studies in the History of Arabia, Vol. 3, ed. A. R. Al-Ansary (Riyadh: King Saud University), pp. 137–45</ref> Peter Parr,<ref>Peter J. Parr, "Further Reflections on Late Second Millennium Settlement in North West Arabia," in Retrieving the Past: Essays on Archaeological Research and Methodology, ed. J. D. Seger (Winona Lake: Eisenbrauns, 1996), pp. 213–18.</ref> and Beno Rothenberg<ref>Rothenberg, "Egyptian Chariots, Midianites from Hijaz/ Midian (Northwest Arabia) and Amalekites from the Negev in the Timna Mines: Rock drawings in the Ancient Copper Mines of the Arabah – new aspects of the region's history II," Institute for Archaeo-Metallurgical Studies, newsletter no. 23 (2003), p. 12.</ref> have suggested that the Midianites were originally Sea Peoples who migrated from the Aegean region and imposed themselves on a pre-existing Semitic stratum. The question of the origin of the Midianites still remains open.Template:Citation needed

Midian Mountains

The Midian Mountains (Template:Langx) are a mountain range in northwestern Saudi Arabia. They are considered to be either contiguous with the Hijaz Mountains to the south,<ref name="GhazanfarFisher2013">Template:Cite book</ref> or a part of them.<ref name="Scoville1979">Template:Cite book</ref> The Hijaz are treated as part of the Sarawat range, sensu lato.<ref name="Mandal1990">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="Nasr2013">Template:Cite book</ref>

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  Haql on the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba between the Syrian region and Arabian and Sinai Peninsulas, with the mountains in the background

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  1908 image of a mountain associated with Muhammad and Lawrence of Arabia, Template:Convert from Tabuk

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See also

• ʿĀd
• Balak
• Al-Bad'
• Ishmaelites
• Kedar
• History of ancient Israel and Judah
• The Bible and history
• Midian war
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• Abarim, Jordanian mountains to the north
• Biblical Mount Sinai

References

Bibliography

• Clines, David and John Sawyer, eds. "Midian, Moab and Edom: The History and Archaeology of Late Bronze and Iron Age Jordan and North-West Arabia". Journal for the Study of the Old Testament, Supplement Series, No. 24. Sheffield Academic Press, 1983.
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External links

• Archaeology of Timna
• Another Timna archaeology site
• Richard Burton's account of his travels in "The Land of Midian"
• Spring of Harod – Ma'ayan Harod
• Midianite Pottery: The designer import of the ancient world
• جبال مدين (Arabic Wiki)